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Ghost Cowboy is about real tales from the 19th-century American frontier, when the Old West was young. Most of the posts here are actual news items from the 1800s and early 1900s. We'll be adding "new" content every week. Travel with us and sign up for an account, and you'll be able to leave comments and post in our forums. Your trailmasters, Ken in Alabama and Dave in Virginia, don't get to saddle up and vacation out west as often as they'd like, so they started this site. Drop us a note.

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SUMMARY MEXICAN JUSTICE.


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New-York Times / May 24, 1888

DURANGO, Mexico, May 24. -- Troops near San Miguel de Maquital executed seven bandits Wednesay for a murder and a robbery committed at a hacienda owned by an American named Muller. The robbers, assisted by some of the local peons, attacked the house while the family were partaking of supper. Mrs. Muller and her son, a school teacher, and Mr. Muller were present. The intention was only to kill Muller, for they shot him five times and then finished him with knives.


Coffeyville, Kansas


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The Kansas town where the Dalton Gang was wiped out on October 5, 1892. The C.M. Condon private bank is at right. 1909 photograph by F.J. Bandholtz. For the full-size panoramic version click here.

THE DALTONS WIPED OUT.


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Galveston Daily News / October 6, 1892.

A BLOODY DAY AT COFFEYVILLE FOR BOTH SIDES.

The Place Strewed With Corpses of Robbers, Officers and Citizens -- The Plot and the Battle Described.

COFFEYVILLE, Kan., Oct. 5. -- The Dalton gang has been exterminated -- wiped off the face of the earth. They were to-day shot down, but not until four citizens of this place yielded up their lives in the work of extermination. Six of the gang rode into town this morning and robbed two banks. The raid became known to the officers of the law, and when the bandits attempted to escape they were attacked by the marshal's posse. In the battle which ensued four of the desperadoes were killed outright, and one so fatally wounded that he has since died. The other

Stage arriving


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The Stage from Carson arriving at Strawberry Valley, California. This image is one half of a stereograph published in 1866.

 

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